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...Verdict? Though the debate is nowhere near settled, there are growing signs that the final verdict will lean in the Lazarus direction. The Baruch Report (TIME, Feb. 28) supported that viewpoint. This week the Senate's hardworking Truman Committee did likewise...
Prime mover is Major Andre Baruch, ex-CBS announcer.* When the Americans hit the North African beaches in November 1942, Lieut. Baruch was aboard ship off Casablanca, telling the French to take it easy. When the shooting was over, he and Clayton Dow, another ex-CBSer, and Houston A. Brown, ex-engineering professor (both are now majors), sat around with not much to do, decided to build a radio station...
Concentrating first on jive and popular music, Baruch and his men were soon swamped with telephone calls requesting the concert variety. The callers were most explicit, naming exactly what Beethoven they wanted, and by what performer. As soon as it could get its classical recording library built up, the network obliged. But the most famous request to date came from Lieut. General Mark Clark, who phoned to ask what was playing. Told that it was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, he asked for some Hawaiian music. "Who's this calling, bud?" asked the announcer. "General Clark." said the General...
...played retranscriptions of the G.I. network programs with Nazi commentary added ('The Germans are a friendly people; why fight them?"). Engineer Brown got the idea of breaking in on the Germans on their own frequency. Thus, when Sally teased, "Why don't you boys go home?", Announcer Baruch would answer: "I don't know. My wife doesn't love me. Besides, we love you fellows very much, and tomorrow we are going to show you how much we love you by laying a couple of eggs in your backyard." The Germans finally gave up: the last...
News is the G.I.s' favorite radio item-and they get plenty of it. There are no commentators, experts, keyholers, just the cold facts. The Germans, for instance, do not "counterattack," they "advance." Says Baruch: "You can't eyewash the boys or smooth anything over; they're too close...